They used a ladder as the framework, curtains, solid wood cabinets, packing bubbles, dusty posters, backboards and canteens with a layer of leaves on top.
He let the rest of the thought fade as he watched a kid across the street dribbling a basketball around a telephone pole that had a backboard and net nailed on it .
She flushed. " But you-you'd rather get your head beaten to a pulp and your arm riddled with dope needles and your chin used for a backboard in a basketball game. God knows there's enough of it" .